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The aim of this thesis is to explore the opportunities for utilizing cyber-physical systems in the domain of supporting elderly’s active leisure activities (ALAs) and the possible way of interaction between users and cyber-physical systems. ALAs covers wide range of activities. The focused ALAs in this thesis is resistance training. Resistance...

The Flex-to-Rigid (F2R) platform is a generic IC-based technology platform that allows flexible sensors and electronics to be fabricated and integrated onto the catheters or guidewires of minimally invasive medical instruments. In this thesis, a process flow was developed for the fabrication of flexible metal interconnects based on the F2R...

This experimental research is focused on fail mechanisms in non-cohesive soil beneath the jet with a Jet Erosion Test(JET). A vertical plain jet impinges fluid to a sand bed, which causes zero shear stress beneath the jet averaged over time. Many erosion theories would say that no pick-up happen at that point.

Industries such as chemical companies need a continuous power supply and the fast transfer relay Siemens 7uv68 is designed to transfer frompresent feederwhich encounters a fault to an auxiliary feeder and minimizes the transient torque of the induction motors during transfer. The relay will be installed in a DOW power plant in South Tarragona,...

This project aims to take the Xipailou neighborhood- a deprived mixed-use neighborhood in the city center as the primary case for studying regeneration, try to formulate a more comprehensive regeneration approach that improves the livability. The process is different from the current top-down regeneration approach in China. Based on the...

Climate change and other challenges such as energy transition and social transition in Bergen mean the urban structure and spatial qualities would be influenced and the lifestyle of people might also change. In order to sustain or improve the current level of livability of the city, certain policies and interventions through spatial planning and...

This paper will discuss the conflict between designers and other actors in urban regeneration processes in China’s historic quarters. It does this because the role of mediation is missing. Based on observation and analysis, it will be shown how urban design can address this problem, both theoretically and in practice.As an increasingly...

The process of the graduation design starts from research and ends in an elaborated project.With the large-scale model making, photo taking, drawing and writing, the sensual perception of Baebican is kept in mind from which the design scheme is built. Theoretical reading on London and European concert hall context construct the cultural...

We focused on analysis of long-term medication influenced white matter tracts based on diffusion-weighted MRI brain images of patients with ADHD disorder. We applied a framework of consistent model selection with Tract-based spatial statistics (TBSS) to give proper and consistent modelling of fiber-crossing in white matter. An orientation atlas...

Through the three diamond design approach, a research to enhance the customer experience using personalization for KLM’s onboard portal is identified. To do so, a framework that merges emotion-driven design and data-driven design models together to aid in building an emotional, intimate customer relationship is utilized. This framework has aided...

Due to increased traffic density, there is a tendency to construct larger immersed tunnels with larger tunnel elements both in transversal and longitudinal direction resulting in a more critical design of the joints. Especially for those tunnels with relatively soft foundation and high siltation, there is no mature experience for reference. This...

Many fields need high performance time measurements, including particle detection, time-resolved imaging, transducer array channel multiplexing and other time of-flight systems. These measurements are often performed by means of time-to-digital converters(TDCs), that for these applications, require high resolution, accuracy, and throughput. This...

Inductive power transfer (IPT) has become a hot topic and is supposed to have a wide range of application in the future. This thesis focuses on the IPT system with multiple pickups in the lighting application. A multiple pickup system can power more than one pickup at the same time and the power consumption varies with a different number of...

The project seeks a strategic planning of integrating urban agriculture into part of the green infrastructure for Rotterdam Zuid, which hopes to open up the possibilities of urban agriculture to inspire people like planners, decision makers and residents. The proposal based on the collaborative communication combining the supportive policy,...

Visible Light Communication has been intriguing both the industry and the academia for over a decade. However, most of the research efforts in this area only consider scenarios where the light emitted from the transmitters is constant. This is not true when Smart Lighting, a technology designed for more comfortable and energy efficient buildings...

With a combination of high strength and good formability, dual-phase steels have gained much interest in the automobile industry. The final microstructure, which leads to mechanical properties of the product, is strongly dependent on the processing of the steel. Apart from hot-rolling and cold-rolling, the parameters during continuous annealing...